SALT LAKE CITY -- Sarah Burke was an X Games star with a grass-roots mentality - a daredevil superpipe skier who understood the risks inherent to her sport and the debt she owed to it.
The pioneering Canadian freestyler, who helped get superpipe accepted into the Olympics, died Thursday after a Jan. 10 crash during a training run in Park City, Utah.
Burke, who lived near Whistler, in British Columbia, was 29. Tests revealed she sustained "irreversible damage to her brain due to lack of oxygen and blood after cardiac arrest," according to a statement released by her publicist, Nicole Wool, on behalf of the family.
A four-time Winter X Games champion, Burke crashed on the same halfpipe where snowboarder Kevin Pearce sustained a traumatic brain injury during a training accident on Dec. 31, 2009.
Wool said Burke's organs and tissues were donated, as she had requested before the accident.
Swiss ski star Dider Cuche, 37, will retire after the season despite being in contention for a record-equaling fifth World Cup downhill title.
Carter takes turn for the worse: Hall of Fame catcher Gary Carter, diagnosed last May with a malignant brain tumor, received results of his latest MRI exam, according to the online journal of his daughter, Kimmy Bloemers. She writes: "I wish I could say that the results were good. ... There are now several new spots/tumors on my dad's brain."
Carter had the MRIs Friday in North Palm Beach, Fla., and the results were sent to his doctors at Duke University for evaluation.
Roddick out with injury: Andy Roddick has an injured hamstring that forced him to retire from his match against Lleyton Hewitt at the Australian Open in Melbourne.
Australian wild-card entry Hewitt was leading the match between two former No. 1-ranked players 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 when Roddick called for the doctor and trainer in the break after the third set.
Roddick had fallen to the court early in the second set, but played despite being in obvious pain from the leg injury.
